{"id":1157,"date":"2013-08-27T22:09:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T02:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2025-10-31T21:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:15:05","slug":"latvia-old-and-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/2013\/08\/latvia-old-and-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia Lighthouse Stamps Old And New, 23 Jul 1925 and 23 Aug 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These two stamps feature&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@56.518405,20.9924579,3a,75y,90t\/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipPIee5DUegBybFwy5OgH3CsJ6IrFORdwOi8SjRp!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPIee5DUegBybFwy5OgH3CsJ6IrFORdwOi8SjRp%3Dw203-h152-k-no!7i4320!8i3240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liep\u0101ja&nbsp;Lighthouse<\/a>. The first was issued on 23 Jul 1925 and the new one on 23 Aug 2013. Liep\u0101ja, located on Latvia&#8217;s southwest coast is that countries 3rd largest city. The lighthouse is of cast iron construction and was established in 1868. A special thanks to Capt. Aleksejs Dovbna for providing the 1925 stamp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"ngg-fancybox\" title=\"Liep\u00e3ja L\/H | 29 May 1925\" href=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-latvia\/lva_s_1001a.jpg\" rel=\"\" data-image-id=\"10340\" data-src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-latvia\/lva_s_1001a.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-latvia\/thumbs\/thumbs_lva_s_1001a.jpg\" data-title=\"Liep\u00e3ja L\/H | 29 May 1925\" data-description=\"Liep\u00e3ja L\/H | 29 May 1925\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-latvia\/lva_s_1001a.jpg\" alt=\"Liep\u00e3ja L\/H | 29 May 1925\" width=\"200\" height=\"161\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ngg-fancybox\" title=\"Liep\u00e3ja L\/H | 23 Aug 2013 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" href=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-latvia\/lva_s_1015a.jpg\" rel=\"\" data-image-id=\"10354\" data-src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-latvia\/lva_s_1015a.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-latvia\/thumbs\/thumbs_lva_s_1015a.jpg\" data-title=\"Liep\u00e3ja L\/H | 23 Aug 2013 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" data-description=\"Liep\u00e3ja L\/H | 23 Aug 2013 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/stamps-latvia\/lva_s_1015a.jpg\" alt=\"Liep\u00e3ja L\/H | 23 Aug 2013 - Image source: Universal Postal Union\" width=\"200\" height=\"126\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See more lighthouse stamps from Latvia <a href=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/images-2\/stamps\/stamps-countries-h\/stamps-latvia\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two stamps feature&nbsp;Liep\u0101ja&nbsp;Lighthouse. The first was issued on 23 Jul 1925 and the new one on 23 Aug 2013. Liep\u0101ja, located on Latvia&#8217;s southwest coast is that countries 3rd largest city. The lighthouse is of cast iron construction and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/2013\/08\/latvia-old-and-new\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[172,159],"tags":[391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23234,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/23234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthousestampsociety.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}